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Biography
Sinead O'Connor is a highly talented and
versatile artist with a worldwide following. Her spontaneous
generosity - she donated her Los Angeles house to raise
money for the Red Cross Somalia appeal - and
her concern on a number of world issues is heartwarming, but
her fiercely personal songs and outspoken views have
ensured that her career has been plagued by controversy.
Sinead was born in Dublin in 1967. She
moved to London in 1985, after signing to Ensign Records, where
she both wrote and produced her first album, The Lion and the Cobra,
released in 1987. In 1988 she toured the UK, USA and Europe.
Her second album entitled 'I Do
Not Want What I Haven't Got' was
released in 1990, and went straight into the UK album chart
at No 1.
A world tour followed and Sinead won
best single and best female singer awards at the 1990 MTV
Music Awards and, later, the American Grammy and the Brit
Awards.
Her third album, 'Am I Not Your Girl?',
was recorded in 1992 with an orchestra of forty-seven
musicians.
In 1993 she moved back to Dublin and,
alongside appearances in the Peter
Gabriel Secret World tour,
recorded the closing song of the film In the Name of the
Father. Sinead has continued to write and compose her own
songs and her fourth album, 'Universal Mother',
appeared in 1994.
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